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ROTTBOELLIA EXALTATA 



ERYCIBE PANICULATA. 



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w large and numerous, outside smooth, inside hairy, margins 

 hispid; sheaths very hairy: hairs elevated on glandulous 



s 



Filaments from the b'ase of the tube of the corol, short. Anthers 



egg'd, pointed. 

 Style none. Stigma large, five-furrow'd. 



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cylindric. 



the exterior axills, generally solitary, Berry size of a small cherry, black, pulpy, one-seeded 



Flowers are of three sorts, hermaphrodite, male a, and neuter b ; 



This is a very large, climbing shrub, a native of our mountain 



the first and second occupy the same alternate pits on one forests ; young shoots are covered with much rust-coloured farina, 



side of the spike, while the neuter stand on each side of them, 



so that the spike may be called halved, or one-rank'd. 

 Calyx of the hermaphrodite and male florets two-valv'd, &c. as in 



the Rottboellia compressa. 

 Corol also as in the R. compressa. 



Calyx of the neuter flower two-valved: valvelets oblong. 

 Corol: glumes two, membranous. 



Is a native of mountains. 



158. 



OPILIA AMENTACEA. 



Bally-coma of the Telingas. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx below, five-tooth'd. Corol five-petal'd. Nqctarial bodies five, 



alternate with the stamens. Style none. Berry one-seeded. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Leaves alternate, two-faced, short-petioled, egg'd or oblong, intire, 



smooth, shining, sometimes very slightly saw'd, about three 

 inches long, and one and a half broad. 



Stipules none. 



Raceme axillary, small, erect ; before the flowers open it is every 



where closely imbricated with small, three-flower'd, targeted, 

 kidney-form, pointed, ciliated, falling bractes. 



Flowers small, greenish- white. 



below 



Petals five, spreading, oblong. 



JVectary : five 



stamens. 



the 



Filaments five, spreading, shorter than the petals. Anthers egg'd 

 Germ oblong. Style none. Stigmas single. 

 Berry size of a cherry, globular, juicy, one-seeded. 



This is a small tree, a native of the mountainous parts of the 

 Circars. 



159. 



ERYCIBE PANICULATA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx below, five-tooth'd. Corol one-petal'd, ten-lob'd 



none. Stigma five-furrowed. Berry one-seeded. 



Style 



DESCRIPTION. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, reflected, linear-oblong, pointed, 



intire, smooth, from four to five inches long, and about two 



broad. 

 Panicle terminal, large, oblong, covered with rust-coloured farina. 

 Flowers numerous, small, rust-colour'd ; border yellow. The ten 



divisions of the border of the corol are equal, and orbicular. 



160. TRIOPTERIS INDICA. 



Linn. spec, plant, ed. Willdenow 2. p. 7 44. 



* 



Bey-rack-tiga of the Telingas. (Tiga means a climbing or twin- 

 ing plant.) 





Leaves opposite, petioled, egg'd, acute, waved, and sometimes a 



little scollop'd, intire, smooth, shining, from three to four 

 inches long, and two broad. 



Petiole channel'd, downy, three-fourths of an inch long. 



Panicles terminal, and axillary, cross-armed, small, delicate; or the 



whole extremity of the branchlets may be called one beautiful, 



large, leafy, panicle. 



Bractes small, rust-coloured. 



Flowers very numerous, white. 



Petals oblong, concave, without claws. 



Stigmas headed, intire ; (sometimes the three styles adhere as if one.) 



Seeds three, linear-oblong, united at the seeds themselves ; each sur- 

 rounded by a very large membranous wing. 



A large twining shrub, a native of the forests among the moun- 

 tains. I know of no use any part of this plant is put to. 



161. 



TORENIA CORDIFOLIA. 



Stem erect, from six to eight inches high, four-sided. 



Branches cross-armed, ascending, stem-like, purplish, a little hairy. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, hearted, saw'd, a little hairy, one 



inch long, and three-quarters broad. 



Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicled, large in proportion to the plant, 



bluish-purple. 

 Calyx large, bellied, five-angled, two-lip'd: upper lip slightly three- 



tooth'd ; the under lip simply pointed, permanent. 

 Corol: upper lip slightly emarginated. 

 Xectary cup-form, surrounds the base of the germ. 

 Filaments simply approach arch-wise. Anthers double, one above 



the other, united by pairs. 

 Capsule hid in the calyx, two-cell'd, two-valv'd. 



This is a small, herbaceous, rare plant, a native of the moist 

 pasture lands about Samulcotah, Flowers during the cold season. 



162. 



GMELINA PARVIFOLIA 



Shieri goomoodoo of the Telingas. 



This comes very near to Gmelina asiatica; the chief differences 

 are : it is always a smaller plant, with much smaller leaves, although 



